We use too much Power. Finally Getting the PERFECT SETUP IN THE TROPICS - Ep 58

[@spicoli9584]

Lower the battery bank that's just silly up the solar Bud up the solar

[@pmacgowan]

Replace battery’s with lithium lifep04, beef up your pannels

[@jspice-kl2wc]

Great video, thank you.

[@markamsterdam539]

Nice video

[@carrierserena]

Love watching you improve the boat as you go.

[@SailingJibsea]

Much more of that to come as you get further into the episodes!🤩🤩

[@andersnielsen5895]

from behind the solar panel???? impressiv

[@brieneaton8578]

Hey guys. St. Catharines here. Been subbed for a while now. How much was your lack of sailing experience , HUUMM ? ? I , um , I , don't think I believe ya . LOL. Even your camera work, nice, really, nice. Anyway , you know and I know Lake Ontario can kill ya. Real quick. But damm it all , you are down where I always wanted to be. Like ' Sailing UMA ' says " don't buy a couch ". And don't ya know it , I did ! 40 years ago . I'm here [ and 40 years older ] and you guys are there. Stay there or keep sailing on around our beautiful ' Blue Dot '. Please don't stop making you videos. Us old farts need em. Stay healthy, stay safe, stay afloat.

[@SailingJibsea]

Hey there! Thank you so much, but if you watch from the beginning, you’ll see that it didn’t start off the best lmao. We plan on doing this as long as we can and as long as it makes us happy 😊 glad to have you following along for the ride 🇨🇦

[@konstantink7841]

May I suggest installing a solid welded stainless steel arch as far back to the stern as possible. That is what all people finally get to. Your solar panels over the biminy are not working most of the time because of the shade from the boom and main sail. And you should know by now, that only 10% overshade reduces the energy you get by 90% And also one more note. I might be mistaking, but it lookes to me, that you have installed solars directly on the stainless tubes. If so - that's a time bomb. NEVER let steel and aluminium get in direct contact - put some plastic between them

[@SailingJibsea]

Thanks for the suggestion. When anchored, we just simply move the boom the the side in the morning to prevent blockage and it’s been working well for us to get fully charged

[@konstantink7841]

@@SailingJibsea Moving the boom aside works just fine! If you are anchored most of the day light. In the Med - where I sail, it is common to be underway most of the day, and anchor in the evening. So the solars have to work with the sails up, and the transome arch does the job

[@stephenmahoney9531]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@andersnielsen5895]

the wind will remove that solarpannel for you easy peasy and its broken you need to get a better suport for it

[@SailingJibsea]

So far they’ve stayed put in 50kt winds!

[@mathewdavis-adventuresandd6643]

Well, that turned out pretty slick. Good job Travis. As far as not having enough power from you solar panels, and keep in mind I'm talking with ZERO experience so take it with a grain of salt and maybe someone that has the knowledge can throw their 2 cents in. I saw on another channel that stated, if a certain percentage of their solar was blocked by the sun the charge controller shut down, so if they had all panels going to one controller the entire thing would shut down if one side of the panels were shaded. The fix was to install a couple of charge controllers basically putting their panels in zones. This way one side was still bringing in juice while the other side may have shut down. Those charge controllers aren't cheap so a person would have to weigh cost to benefit. Again this is outside my field so hopefully someone can chime in and tell me I'm full of #### and stick to fishing or I may have a good point. lol

[@SailingJibsea]

thanks for the suggestion, it makes sense!

[@annafraley5388]

Some good innovations you made ✅🔋 Funny ending too..!! 😎👍

[@SailingJibsea]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it😆

[@TheBeatlemanic]

Beautiful underwater vid. My suggestion is, Do Not remove the battery. Just add 2 solar panels instead of just one. By lowering below your battery power will reduce how you live. She needs her power, Solar panels are lot cheaper than before, easy to add and of course make her happy. Your right the wind generator is just a give me power. Is your engine also a Charging source when used, if not, make it so. Do you have a Generator on board, If so, this can be used also with a min. amount of fuel on cloudy days. You should get 3 Solar's across, center one can be attached to the outer ones. Beautiful waters and Mountains, never been there. Some Day.

[@geoffhunwick9151]

A good ratio of solar to Ahs is if you have say 100ah battery you need 200watts of solar. We live just in the sun tropics of Australia no the coast and that ratio is good for our RV to have 100% charge on a good day by day 11am but that all changes with over cast days but most days we still reach float through the day. Love your travel footage of places we could get to so love you sharing your adventure we use. Geoff

[@davehornsby7174]

" Well , Good thing we've got all Day " :) perfect !!

[@allenshepherd5225]

it must have been one of those non-alcoholic beers! Keep the great videos coming. Thanks guys!

[@svZia-Switch51]

Watts are a good starting point for panels but it's the efficiency of panels that really matters. Higher quality panels are far more efficient, albeit more expensive, than cheaper panels. Read the specs on the efficiency conversion of sunlight to energy which is expressed as a percentage.

[@nuffsaid7952]

My suggestion is do not remove a battery. Add solar panels, panels are cheap these days and the more battery storage you have the better. Look at whether you charge the house bank from the main engine also as this is good while motoring. Also if you have a generator, use it to boost the batteries on those cloudy days.

[@SailingJibsea]

Agree! Exactly what we did and do! Thanks 😊

[@rustymacneil3227]

Don't know what you did back in Tdot, but ya got the serious Red Green thing down to a science!!

[@SailingJibsea]

Haha thanks!

[@mikehinson4062]

You can normally take a smaller size of tubing and put like a 1 foot length inside as a support sleeve

[@Hookmodo]

Love the Travis Finds segments! Makes me grin every time!

[@SailingJibsea]

😆 never know what he’ll find, seriously!

[@scottlynn9078]

Wondering what kind of drone you guys are using? Great footage!! Thanks!!

[@SailingJibsea]

Thanks! We have a mavic pro 2

[@brownnoise357]

Hi there. Nice insights. Boatless at the moment sadly, so getting stuck in to what I need for my next Sailboat. Beamy Aft Cockpit, Custom 50mm x 1.6mm 316 stainless Steel Solar Arch, linking into Bimini, linking into the Sprayhood/Dodger. Arch to fit 4 x 250 watt High efficiency Monocrystalline Cells Panels, for 1,000 Watts, into 660 ah AGM House Bank. I'm avoiding Lithium at the moment, as there isn't enough solid Factual data in them for non damaging discharge levels- a manufacturer of Lifepo4 batteries has told me they get damaged each time they discharge below 50% Capacity, and rapid charging isn't very good for them plus there is a strong chance charging them over 85% reduces their service Life, just like with mobile phones and such. Getting AGM to have a useful 10 year service life isn't difficult. to get engine start, bow thruster, and Windlass batteries back up to 100% fast, there'll be a high output well cooled Alternator on the inboard engine, no generator,,and surplus outputbhelps top up the house Bank with a smart external regulator. I might try Carbon Lead for the House Bsttery Bank.

[@jneyron]

Very nice and goof job. Love it. From a Canadian in Thailand

[@SailingJibsea]

🇨🇦

[@svbarryduckworth628]

We have an Air Breeze wind turbine and it is great at bulk charging when the sun isn't out -but pretty much craps the bed once it hits absorption stage. It keeps braking and stopping since it isn't smart enough to throttle back like the solar panel controller can. It is even worse when we have a ton of wind and it is putting out 20+ amps. It'll run for 1 minute and when the voltage surges to 14v it brakes to a stop and won't start again for 5 minutes or so. That whole time the batteries are sinking again back to 12.6v or so. Then it does it all over again. So the batteries never get up higher than about 80% on a really cloudy dark day even when there is plenty of wind. But at least they aren't draining down to 50%, which would be bad. We have had 4-5 dark overcast days in a row when the batteries never got above 80%. If we had lithium batteries we would not have that issue but I really don't care that much because as long as it it keeping the batteries between 50-80% they can't be damaged. We can always equalize next week when the sun comes out again abd we are at 100% again. On sunny days we usually hit float or equalize every day by around 11. I have turned up the dropout voltage of the wind generator about .25v but don't want to turn it much higher for safety's sake.

[@timmitchell8784]

Looks great. My only concern is getting a larger bird landing on the back edge on passage with moderate to rougher seas. You could have some problems. I think I’d put some kind of support back there.

[@SailingJibsea]

Thanks, so far no bird landings! 🤞🏼

[@generossano2800]

You might wanty to watch the live stuff with nigel and Jason from Atticus II at Annapolis this month or last. They go over all of ths stuff which is crytical so you don't cause a fire.

[@SailingLifeonMars]

We just bought a boat in Grenada and started watching your channel this month - love all the footage and locales. Another great video!

[@SailingJibsea]

That’s awesome, congrats!☺️

[@Ed-uj4bc]

Really nice graphics in this one. Very helpful!

[@SailingJibsea]

Thanks!

[@garrieparsons2265]

You need to do spear fishing ….sailing into freedom on KZbin spearfish every day for food 🍲 no catch no eat lol 😆👍👌😆

[@SailingJibsea]

Loved it in the Bahamas but all the other islands don’t allow non-locals to spear fish 😔

[@JS-sx3bl]

Nice work Travis! Great editing again. Renewable at sea sure beats running the engine in port. Nice you two😀

[@SailingJibsea]

Thanks! 😊

[@mrsmith3554]

Number 1🏝😎🤙

[@gordonrjones]

Nice Job

[@SailingJibsea]

Thanks!

[@bringmewateradventures]

great video guys. Nice job on the solar.😎🤙⛵

[@SailingJibsea]

Thank ya!😁😁

[@scottjones5221]

You guys are fun, glad your solar 💪 worked out

[@gerryguertin1431]

they have panels up to 400w 24v panels keep in mind that one 100w/24v =2 100w/12v

[@robertsylvain333]

Sorry man but your wrong, watts don't change with voltage

[@s.v.gadder1443]

Volts x amps = watts. I run 30v panels and a mppt so what happens is the charger breaks the voltage down to 12v and multiples the amps.

[@robertsylvain333]

Yeah exactly but the watts never change. 1amp x 100v=100watts. 100a x 1v=100watts again. If voltage goe up or down it doesn't matter just as long as the ratio is the same you get the same wattage

[@robertsylvain333]

So one 100w panel at 24v does not equal 2x100w panels at 12v

[@svZia-Switch51]

Another great project guys, congrats!!!

[@jackfarmer3336]

Great job on the power

[@SailingJibsea]

Thank you!

[@williamparker2809]

Remember that you will only get the rated output power for less than 5 hours a day. And that is with no shadow from rigging, sails etc covering even part of a panel.

[@royshroud9536]

What type of batteries in your battery bank? Lithium are not cheap but the best.

[@SailingJibsea]

We have 4 AGM 8Ds

[@mrsmith3554]

Beautiful underwater shots. Really good install Travis considering you used just what you had on the boat looks nice and tidy. c u next week.

[@SailingJibsea]

Thank you! See ya next week!

[@portfoliofotoz]

Just run your engine to top up your batteries.

[@stevebraker2000]

Great episode as usual. Thanks a lot.

[@SailingJibsea]

Thank you for watching!☺️

[@Da89soup]

Nice Job Travis! You both have such great attention to detail in everything you do....

[@SailingJibsea]

Thanks Ryan! We appreciate the difference attention to detail makes!

[@captainstevenelson5294]

If they’re lead acid batteries then yes, but if they’re lithium batteries then no, on the one battery exclusion. Lead acid batteries operate best 50-100 % charge Lithium batteries operate best 20-80% charge

[@jeffreysearle2996]

Good info and it was not ghetto and then it turned into Alvin and the chipmunks in a bikini at the end. 😳

[@SailingJibsea]

😂😂 not random at all!

[@akilback]

Nice install on the new panel. How did you connect the new panel to the existing panels?

[@aytacercen944]

You were not a math major, were you?

[@mattmeiners985]

Your boyfriend makes the comment, "You are squishing me" When you were laying on top of him.....What???????

[@SailingJibsea]

He may have been trying to nap🤣

[@c.a.mcneil7599]

There is never a perfect setup. Ok set it up and never use it. Right? Fix everything wait for the next. If it moves or in any weather it breaks. Get rid of thinking perfect set up.

[@SailingJibsea]

We mean perfect in the sense of sufficient and efficient for our needs at the moment ☺️

[@c.a.mcneil7599]

@@SailingJibsea keep mastering your journey that’s your journey master it. Be blessed.

[@stevemacmillan2116]

Very nice work Travis!

[@SailingJibsea]

Thanks!